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  • Art History 114: History of Design and the Decorative Arts

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    A survey of the decorative arts from the rococo period to postmodernism. Students explore the evolution of historical styles as they appear in furniture, interiors, fashion, ceramics, metalwork, and graphic and industrial design. Objects are evaluated in their historical contexts, and formal, technical, and aesthetic questions are also considered. Two or more trips to museums to see decorative arts collections are included.
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  • Art History 122: Survey of African Art

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    Africana Studies, LAIS This introductory course surveys the vast array of art forms created on the African continent from the prehistoric era to the present, as well as arts of the diaspora in Brazil, the Americas, Haiti, and elsewhere. In addition to sculpture, masks, architecture, and metalwork, students examine beadwork, textiles, jewelry, house painting, pottery, and other decorative arts. Topics explored include implements of divination, royal regalia, music and dance, funerary practices, and the incorporation of Western motifs and materials.
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  • Art History 124: Japanese Arts of the Edo Period

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    After 500 years of civil war, Japan entered the Edo period, when a stable government established peace that lasted until the modern era. From 1615 to 1868, Japan and its capital at Edo, the modern Tokyo, underwent a number of dramatic changes that are readily apparent in the art and architecture. This course examines the painting styles that characterize the period, including native, Western-influenced, Zen, genre, and aristocratic, as well the development of printmaking as represented by Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige. Contemporary developments in architecture, textiles, and ceramics are also viewed, and contemporary literature is studied for the cultural and historical context it provides for understanding the art.
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  • Art History 125: Modern Architecture:1850 to 1950

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    An examination of modern architecture from its emergence in Western Europe during the 19th century through the end of World War II. Particular attention is paid to the ways architects have responded to, and participated in, formal and aesthetic developments in other arts, as well as to broader technological, economic, and sociopolitical transformations. Covering many aspects of architecture-from buildings, drawings, models, exhibitions, and schools to historical and theoretical writings and manifestos- the course investigates a range of modernist practices, polemics, and institutions.
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  • Art History 126: Architecture since 1945

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    A survey of the major transformations in architectural practice and debate since the end of World War II, with a focus on the challenges aimed at the modernist discourses of the early 20th century. These challenges and critiques begin with New Brutalism and encompass regionalism, neorationalism, corporate modernism, so-called "blob" architecture, and various permutationsof these models. Attention is also paid to alternative and experimental practices that deal with pop art, cybernetic, semiological, and new media discourses. The course concludes with the impact on built form of globalization and advanced information technologies.
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  • Art History 130: Introduction to Visual Culture

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    An introduction to the discipline of art history and to visual artifacts more broadly defined. Participants learn ways to look at, think about, and describe art through writing assignments based on observation of works at museums and galleries. This course is designed for anyone with an interest, but no formal course work, in art history. First-year students and prospective majors are encouraged to enroll.
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  • Art History 140: Survey of Islamic Art

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    Africana Studies A survey of Islamic art in Iran, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, North Africa, Spain, China, India, Indonesia, and other regions, from the death of Muhammad in 632 C.E. until the present. Architectural monuments (their structural features and decoration) are studied as well as the decorative arts in all the various media-pottery, metalwork, textile and carpet weaving, glass, jewelry, calligraphy, book illumination, and painting. Students visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to view its Islamic collection.
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  • Art History 160: Survey of Latin American Art

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    LAIS A broad overview of art and cultural production in Latin America, including South and Central America,Mexico, and the hispanophone Caribbean. A survey of major pre-Columbian monuments is followed by an examination of the contact between Europe and the Americas during the colonial period, 19th-century Eurocentrism, and the reaffirmation of national identity in the modern era.
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  • Art History 193: Arts of Japan

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    Asian Studies This course begins with a study of the Neolithic period and its cord-impressed pottery, circa 2000 B.C.E., when Japanese cultural and aesthetic characteristics were already observable. Next, the great wave of Chinese influence is considered, including its impact on art, government, religion, and architecture. Subsequent periods of indigenous art-e.g., narrative scroll painting, medieval screen painting, Zen art, and ukiyo-e prints-are examined within the broader context of the social, artistic, and historical development of Japan.
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  • Art History 194: Arts of Buddhism

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    Asian Studies, Religion Buddhism began in India around the sixth century B.C.E. with the philosophical meditations of the historic Buddha. Within 500 years the philosophy evolved into a religion incorporating new ideologies of the Buddha of the Future as well as paradisaical cults. A new pantheon of deities appeared with the power to aid mankind in its search for immortality. Buddhist pictorial art begins with auspicious emblems representing key ideas of the doctrine and anthropomorphic images of the Buddha; later, the new pantheon is formulated and employed in the art. This course analyzes the development of Buddhist art in India from its earliest depictions and its transmission through Southeast Asia, Central Asia, China, and Japan.
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